Car body and truck.



PATENTED NOV. 22, 1904.

E. S. BENNETT. CAR BODY AND TRUCK.

APPLICATION FILED 00120. 1903.

N0 MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented November 22, 1904 PATENT Fries.

CAR BODY AND TRUCK- SPEGIFIGATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 775,644, dated November 22, 1904.

Application filed October 20, 1903. Serial No. 177,799- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ERASTUS S. BENNETT, a 1 shown at l and may be of any desired concitizen of the United States, residing at New York city, State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Bodies and Trucks, of which the following is a specification.

My lnventlon is particularly designed for use in connection wlth minlng apparatus intended for working placer material for extracting the gold or ore therefrom.

The plant or apparatus for which my invention is intended comprises a shovel, scoop, or dipper adapted to take up the placer material, said shovel being carried by a boom which in turn is pivoted to a turn-table supported to turn on the deck or main platform v of a car which also supports an ore-separating apparatussuch as, for instance, an amalgamating-tank, a gravitating-tank, or the like; but while my invention is designed especially for use in connection with such a machine 1 do not wish to limit myself in this respect.

The invention concerns means for connecting the car-body with the trucks, so that under difierent conditions of the road-bed or position of the parts of the-apparatus in working the car-body may be adjusted or leveled up so as to secure the most eifective action of the amalgamating-tank or other ore-separating apparatus carried by the car.

Other features of the invention relate to means for tying the car-body to the truck and to means of an antifriction character for supporting the car-body from the truck and allowing slight swiveling movement of the truck in passing around curves in the track.

Other features of invention consisting of the arrangement and combination of parts will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the accompany drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a mining apparatus embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a front view of part of the car-body and the truck with the connections between .them. Fig. 3 is a detail view of the connection between the car body and truck; and Fig. 4 is a detail view, being a view of Fig. 3 looking from the right thereof.

;deck of the platform 8.

In the drawings, the dipper, shovel, or scoop for taking up the placer or other material is struction as to details. It is supported by boom 2, pivoted at 3 to a turn-table 4 and supported also from the mast 5 by a suitable connection 6. The turn-table is supported on rollers 7 or other bearings from the main On this platform is also supported an ore-separating apparatus, and as a representative form of a separator I 'show a tank 9, to which the material is supplied through a rotary grate or separator 10, the said tank being an amalgamating-tank or gravitating-tank of any desired form. The trucks for supporting the car-body are shown at 11, consisting generally of the wheels 12, the truck-frames 13, and the cross-beams 14:, to which said frames are connected, the said cross-beam having a king-pin 15 extending upwardly and connecting with the main deck or platformon the longitudinal center thereof. This king-pin'passes through a collar 16 and extends a considerable distance above the same, the said collar having an opening 17 flared at its upper and lower portions to receive the pin. This pin allows considerable vertical movement of the car-body in relation to the truck and by reason of the flaring opening the car-body may be tilted in relation to the said truck.

Under certain conditions of the road-bed the main deck or the platformtogether with the trucks will be in inclined position such as to interfere with the proper operation of the separating apparatus or tank, and under such conditions by my invention it is possible to level up themain deck by changing its position in relation to the truck and for this purpose I employ vertically-movable bars 18, extending up through boxesor ways 19 on the cross-beams 14:, said bars having racks 20 on their edges engaging with pinions 21 on shafts 22, journaled in the beams 14, said shafts also carrying gear-wheels 23, meshing with worms 24 on shafts 25, extending vertically of and journaled in the cross-beams let, the said shafts having at their upper ends hand-wheels 26, by which the worms and gearing may be operated to raise or lower the bars 18, and, as shown in Fig. 2, these bars 18 are arranged to raise the main deck or platform on either side or to allow the same to lower when either of the side bars are depressed. The side bars at their upper ends have heads 27, provided with rounded ends 28 and an upper flat surface 29. These heads are also bifurcated, as shown in Fig. 4:, at 30, and each of them carries an antifriction-bearing consisting of a series of rollers 31, supported in and connected together by chains 32, forming a traveling and endless chain of rollers which pass through the bifurcated part of the head around the curved ends 28 and alongthe flat top or track portion 29. The body of the car, as shown in Fig. 2, is provided with angle-iron side beams 33, and these, as shown in Fig. 4:, are shod with bearing-plates 3 1, having lips 35 to engage one flange of the angle iron, and screws 36, passing through upturned ears 37 on the wearing pieces or shoes engage the opposite flange of the angle-irons, thus holding the wearing shoes or pieces in place. The car body or deck is thus supported on antifriction-bearings, and it will be seen that the trucks may have a slight swiveling movement in relation to the car-body, and this movement is rendered free and easy by these antifriction-bearings. In order to tie the platform to the truck, so that in the event of the boom with its bucket or scoop operating laterally of the car there will be no possibility of the car-body tipping up from the truck, I provide tie bars or links 38, extending through flaring openings 39 in ears 40, secured by nuts 41 to the angle-iron beams 33, the said links or tie-bars being held to the lugs by means of nuts 42, and said links or tie-bars at their lower ends passing through eyes or lugs 43, extending laterally from the heads 27 of the vertically-adjustable bars 18. The shanks of these lugs or eyes extend through the heads 27 and are secured thereto by nuts 44. The lower ends of the tie-bars .have heads 4:5, bearing against the under sides of the lugs 43. The arrangement is such that the tie bars will allow a slight swiveling movement of the truck in relation to the car-body. It will be seen that the tiebars connect with the verticallyadjustable lifting-bars l8, and thus they perform their functions in all the different positions to which the car-body may be adjusted vertically or at an inclination in relation to the truck.

By reference to Fig. 2 it will be seen that the truck-frame is extended laterally on each side; as at 46. This is for the purpose of securing an extended base for the said truck by providing supports for the outer ends of the said extensions 46; but it will be understood that where in the above description I refer to a truck I am not limited to any particular form of such a truck, and the connection between the car-body and this truck may be located on the extension, as shown, or in other situations.

It willbe understood that whileI have shown the rack-bar and other parts supported in one way it will be understood that a mere reversal of the mechanism will accomplish an equiva lent result. Thus the rack-bar may be supported on the car-body instead of on the truck and the other parts arranged to correspond.

I claim as my invention 1. In combination in an ore-separating apparatus, a car-body, a separating apparatus supported thereon, a truck, and means for adjusting the car-body in relation to the truck, and means for tying the truck and car-body together, substantially as described.

2. In combination with the car-body, a truck, means at the sides of the car-body for adjusting the same at an incline in relation to.

the truck, and tie-bars forming permanent connections between the truck and oar-body, substantially as described.

3. In combination with the car-body, a truck, rack-bars at the sides of the car for adjusting the same in relation to the truck and a gear with means for operating the same sup ported by the truck, said gear operating the rack-bar, substantially as described.

4:. In combination with a car body and truck, a king-pin connecting them centrally and vertically adjustable antifriction bearings be tween the car body and truck located laterally in relation to the king-pin, and supported from the truck, substantially as described.

5. In combination with a car body and truck, vertically-movable bars carried by the truck and with power means for operating the same, said movable bars being arranged to lift either side of the car-body and antifriction-bearings carried by the said bars on which the car-body a vertically-adjustable bar carried by the truck having a head with a track portion and rounded ends, and an endless chain of rollers supported by the said track portion and rounded ends of the head for supporting the car-body,

substantially as described.

9. In combination with a car body and truck, a vertically movable bar supported by the truck, having its upper end bifurcated and with a track portion and an endless chain of rollers carried by the said bar at its bifurcated portion, said rollers sustaining the car-body, substantially as described.

10. In combination with a car-body and its swiveled truck, tie-bars between the said carbody and swiveled truck, and adjustable side bearings for the car to which the tie-bars are attached, substantially as described.

11. In combination with a car-body, vertical bars carried by the truck with means for operating them, said bars serving to lift the carbody on either side and tie-bars connecting the car-body with the vertically-movable bars, substantially as described.

12. In combination with a car body an truck, vertically-movable bars on the truck for sustaining the car-body, antifriction-bearings between the upper ends of the bars and the car-body and tie-rods between the car-body and the vertically-movable bar, substantially as described.

13. In combination in a separating apparatus, a separating-tank for containing the mercury or other liquid for the separating action,

a truck and means for leveling up the separating-tank, substantially as described.

14. In combination in a separating apparatus, a separating-tank for containing the liquid, a platform or car-body carrying the said tank, a truck for the car-body and means between the truck and car-body for adjusting said body in relation to the truck whereby the I ERASTUS S. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

MYRON L. JUSTIN, J. K. SooTT. 

